| Global warming research has become a very big | | | | that data (2005) from NASA's Mars Global |
| business throughout the world. Each year billions of | | | | Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the |
| dollars are spent studying climate change. The | | | | carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars' south pole |
| United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), now | | | | had been diminishing for three summers in a row. |
| has an annual budget that has reached more than | | | | This means that both the Earth and Mars have |
| $136 million. The Bush Administration has spent | | | | been experiencing similar degrees of global |
| more than thirty billion dollars on federal programs | | | | warming. Of course, the problem for the |
| involved in global warming in the last six years. In | | | | man-made global warming crowd is that there are |
| total, global warming proponents are estimated to | | | | no humans on Mars for them to blame for that |
| have been funded by more than fifty billion dollars | | | | planet's warming. |
| during the last decade. | | | | In a National Geographic story on February 2007, |
| This huge money stream is flowing directly into | | | | Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research |
| the pockets of the advocates of man-made | | | | at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical |
| global warming. It is a river of money that can | | | | Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is |
| only be shut off if it is discovered that man does | | | | evidence that the current global warming on Earth |
| not cause global warming and that climate change | | | | is being caused by changes in the Sun. He reasons |
| is really out of our control. In effect, the same | | | | that "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is |
| people that benefit from the huge research | | | | heating both Earth and Mars." |
| funding pool would have to be motivated to shut | | | | The man-made global warming industry should |
| it off. | | | | remind us of the tulip bulb mania in Holland in 1636. |
| The truth is that the business objective of the | | | | The history books tell us that in 1593 tulips were |
| man-made global warming bandwagon is an | | | | brought from Turkey and introduced to the |
| increasing flow of scientific research grants and | | | | Dutch. The novelty of the new flower made it |
| bureaucratic jobs. The worse the man- made | | | | widely sought after. After a time, the tulips |
| global crisis, the better for the global warming | | | | contracted a non-fatal virus known as mosaic, |
| business. In addition, the news media loves stories | | | | which altered them causing different colors to |
| of fear. This makes man-made global warming a | | | | appear on the petals. The color patterns came in |
| big business for television, magazines, and books | | | | a wide variety and increased the popularity of the |
| as well. | | | | flower. |
| Various "experts" on man-made global warming | | | | The increase in popularity of the tulip led to a rise |
| appear regularly on television to remind everyone | | | | in its price. Soon everyone began to deal in tulip |
| of the upcoming global climate catastrophe in the | | | | bulbs. It became a very big business. Eventually |
| next century. Unfortunately, its not in the interest | | | | things became so crazy that people were selling |
| of the media to cast doubt on man-made global | | | | everything they owned, including their homes and |
| warming. It is a very good business for them. The | | | | livestock, to buy tulip bulbs. At the time, the |
| fact is that very little news media coverage is | | | | consensus expectation was that the tulip bulb |
| given to research that brings into doubt the | | | | would continue to grow in value forever. |
| so-called scientific man-made global warming | | | | In 1636, tulips were listed on the Amsterdam |
| consensus. | | | | stock exchange which further accommodated the |
| Therefore, it is not surprising that we have not | | | | tulip speculators who had become the primary |
| heard much from the news media on the recent | | | | market for tulip bulbs. The price of a tulip bulb at |
| blockbuster report (December 2007) in the | | | | the height of this mania was $76,000. In the next |
| prestigious International Journal of Climatology | | | | six weeks tulip bulbs would drop in value to less |
| (Royal Meteorological Society), of professors: | | | | than one dollar. |
| David H. Douglass (of the University of | | | | Today, man-made global warming is similar to the |
| Rochester), professor John R. Christy (of the | | | | tulip bulb mania in Holland in 1636. It is an issue |
| University of Alabama), Benjamin D. Pearson and | | | | that has been hyped into a huge business. The |
| professor S. Fred Singer (of the University of | | | | absurd consensus in Holland in 1636 was that tulips |
| Virginia). In this report the scientists found: "that | | | | were so unique that they would continue to |
| observed patterns of temperature changes over | | | | increase in value forever. The current global |
| the last 30 years disagree with what greenhouse | | | | warming crowd wants us to believe that global |
| models predict and can better be explained by | | | | warming is controllable and man-made. There is no |
| natural factors, such as solar variability". Their | | | | conclusive evidence that global warming is |
| conclusion was that climate change is | | | | man-made and all contrary evidence is dismissed |
| "unstoppable" and cannot be affected or modified | | | | and ridiculed. We are told that we must act now |
| by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases, | | | | to save the planet or our world will be lost to a |
| such as CO2, as is proposed in current legislation. | | | | multitude of catastrophic events in the future. |
| Dr. S. Fred Singer, said: "The current warming | | | | The inconvenient truth of all this is that, like the |
| trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate | | | | Holland tulip bulb in 1636, man-made global |
| warming and cooling that has been seen in ice | | | | warming hype has entered the world of the |
| cores, deep-sea sediments, stalagmites, etc., and | | | | absurd. We may think the price of $76,000 for a |
| published in hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed | | | | tulip bulb in Holland was silly. However, how silly is |
| journals. "Our research demonstrates that the | | | | it when compared to the global warming hype of |
| ongoing rise of atmospheric CO2 has only a minor | | | | today? Indeed in the future people will look back |
| influence on climate change. We must conclude, | | | | with humor on a decade when tens of billions of |
| therefore, that attempts to control CO2 | | | | dollars were spent in an attempt to convince |
| emissions are ineffective and pointless - but very | | | | society that the warming of Earth was due to |
| costly." | | | | man and not a function of the Sun. |
| The news media has also not made us aware | | | | |